Creamy Polenta Breakfast Skillet

Soft polenta under garlicky greens, white beans, and a spoon of chili crisp — a warm savory start.

💪 Where's the protein? Right here — 17g

White beans (11g)
Polenta (4g)

🍃 Sugar-Free Option

No added sweeteners in this recipe — it's sugar-free as written. Any sugars in the nutrition panel come from whole vegetables, grains, and fruit only.

Ingredients (all organic)

✓Polenta (coarse cornmeal), 1/2 cup
✓Low-sodium vegetable broth, 2 cups
✓Cannellini beans, 3/4 cup
✓Swiss chard, 2 cups
✓Garlic, 2 cloves
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✓Chili crisp, 1 tsp
✓Olive oil, 2 tsp

Dotted ⓘ ingredients have photos and store locations in the field guide.

How to Prep

1Whisk polenta into simmering broth; cook 20 minutes, stirring, until creamy. Finish with nutritional yeast.
2Sauté garlic, chard, and beans until the greens collapse.
3Bowl polenta, pile on greens and beans, dot with chili crisp.

🔪 Starting from raw? The basics (1)

Beans: canned or from dry

Canned is fine everywhere — drain and rinse; one 15-oz can is about 1½ cups. From dry: soak overnight and simmer 60–90 minutes until fully tender.

#comfort#gluten-free#savory

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

Every ingredient above is stocked organic at these local spots:

Whole Foods Market — Lakeview
Fresh Thyme Market — Bucktown
Pete's Fresh Market — Bridgeport
Mariano's — Throughout Chicagoland
Dill Pickle Food Co-op — Logan Square
Sugar Beet Food Co-op — Oak Park

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Creamy Polenta Breakfast Skillet

Ingredients (all organic)

How to Prep

📍 Buy the ingredients — Chicagoland

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